Request to Be Monk
A long time student broke up with his wife and family and requested to be a monk. Rinpoche replied to him as follows.
My very dear Anthony,
Thank you very much your kind letter. Yes, according to my divinations, it would be very good for you to be a monk. That means you have to study the vows after you become a monk and practice as much as possible, and of course this includes the lamrim. Your main focus in life should be lamrim practice, along with preliminary practices, and on top of that, tantra.
I understand you have experienced the suffering of change of samsara, the shortcomings of samsara, and the changes in relationships. If you don’t try to achieve the path, then you will be continuously reborn in samsara and will experience relationship problems endlessly. You will experience over and over again meeting someone, breaking up, all the depression, anger, and jealousy. We have experienced this countless times, from time without beginning, so if you think like this then it is very disgusting and terrifying and there is not even the slightest attraction in it. The only interest you have is to seek liberation from samsara, from all these sufferings. So, now your ex-wife is also your teacher, teaching you the suffering of samsara and helping you to achieve liberation and have detachment.
With much love and prayers...